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Malta-Dubai; 19 August 2016 – Day 10, Towards Jeddah
19 August 11.50 (GMT +2) Steaming towards Jidda Had a couple of very interesting conversations today. First with Lysandro, the messman/steward whose theory it is that the 9/11 bombings was very bad for Filipino crewmen on cruise-ships. That security went … Continue reading
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Malta-Dubai; 18 August 2016 – Day 9, Transitting Suez
18 August 2016 07.55 (GMT +2) Transitting Suez I was so excited last night I could barely sleep. Woke up several times between 02.00 and 04.30 when I finally got up. Turned out we were already steaming – and were/are … Continue reading
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Malta-Dubai; 16-17 August 2016 – Days 7&8, Towards Suez
16 August 12.43 Steaming through the Mediterranean towards Port Said anchorage We are going incredibly slowly at 11.4 knots towards Port Said anchorage. The ship is filled with reefers – with even more having been loaded at Mersin. Much … Continue reading
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Malta-Dubai; 15 August 2016 – Day 6, Towards Mersin
15 August 11.35 ship-time (GMT + 3). Steaming slowly towards Mersin I suddenly have access to data and have spent the morning catching up with my emails. It has been a quiet morning as we have been adrift at … Continue reading
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Malta-Dubai; 14 August 2016 – Day 5, Beirut
14 August 2016 08.30 ship time (GMT+3) At Beirut port The city is under a grey haze and standing on deck outside one is assaulted by the smell of the Burj Hammoud garbage mountain just to the east of … Continue reading
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Walter Benjamin also traveled on freighters
In 1925, Walter Benjamin travelled on a freighter from Hamburg to ports in the Mediterranean. In their Walter Benjamin: A Critical Life, Howard Eiland and Michael Jennings recount the trip (pp. 240-241): “On August 19 the ship [a freighter] sailed … Continue reading
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The Logistics of Counterinsurgency
It was a great pleasure to have an occasion to think through how my previous work on counterinsurgencies connects to my current work on logistics. The occasion was an invitation to lecture at Georgetown University’s Center for Contemporary Arab Studies. … Continue reading
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Lecture on “Capital and Coercion in the Making of Arabian Transport Infrastructures”
I was invited to give a lecture on my current research at the wonderful Center for American Studies and Research at the American University of Beirut. The abstract for the talk: In this talk, I will be thinking through the overlapping … Continue reading
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Podcast on Logistics with Deb Cowen and Charmaine Chua
I had the good fortune of having an amazing conversation with a couple of extraordinary scholars and friends about logistics and having the conversation recorded in a podcast. Charmaine Chua (University of Minnesota) is an extraordinary young scholar working on logistical … Continue reading
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Logistical Territories
The Financial Times has been doing some fascinating investigative reporting on ISIS finances a great deal of which of course is of interest to me because of the ways in which it ties into the movement of commodities and products across … Continue reading
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The Gamming 